A new fault diagnosis method based on adaptive spectrum mode extraction

2021 ◽  
pp. 147592172098694
Author(s):  
Zhijian Wang ◽  
Ningning Yang ◽  
Naipeng Li ◽  
Wenhua Du ◽  
Junyuan Wang

Variational mode decomposition provides a feasible method for non-stationary signal analysis, but the method is still not adaptive, which greatly limits the wide application of the method. Therefore, an adaptive spectrum mode extraction method is proposed in this article. The proposed method is mainly composed of spectral segmentation, mode extraction, and feedback adjustment. In the spectral segmentation part, considering the lack of robustness of classical scale space in a strong noise environment, this article proposes a method of fault feature mapping, which solves over-decomposition of variational mode decomposition guided by classical scale space. In the mode extraction part, for insufficient self-adaptability of the single penalty factor in the variational mode decomposition method, this article proposes a method of spectral aggregation factor, which solves multiple penalty factors that conform to different intrinsic modal functions. In the feedback adjustment part, this article proposes the method of transboundary criterion, which makes the result of variational mode decomposition within a preset range. Finally, using dispersion entropy and kurtosis indicators, intrinsic modal function components containing fault frequencies are extracted for envelope spectrum analysis to extract fault characteristic frequencies. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the proposed method is applied to simulation signals and bearing fault signals. Comparing the decomposition results of different methods, the conclusion shows that the proposed method is more advantageous for the fault feature extraction of rolling bearings.

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Chunguang Zhang ◽  
Yao Wang ◽  
Wu Deng

It is difficult to extract the fault signal features of locomotive rolling bearings and the accuracy of fault diagnosis is low. In this paper, a novel fault diagnosis method based on the optimized variational mode decomposition (VMD) and resonance demodulation technology, namely GNVRFD, is proposed to realize the fault diagnosis of locomotive rolling bearings. In the proposed GNVRFD method, the genetic algorithm and nonlinear programming are combined to design a novel parameter optimization algorithm to adaptively optimize the two parameters of the VMD. Then the optimized VMD is employed to decompose the collected vibration signal into a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), and the kurtosis value of each IMF is calculated, respectively. According to the principle of maximum value, two most sensitive IMF components are selected to reconstruct the vibration signal. The resonance demodulation technology is used to decompose the reconstructed vibration signal in order to obtain the envelope spectrum, and the fault frequency of locomotive rolling bearings is effectively obtained. Finally, the actual data of rolling bearings is selected to testify the effectiveness of the proposed GNVRFD method. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed GNVRFD method can more accurately and effectively diagnose the fault of locomotive rolling bearings by comparing with other fault diagnosis methods.


Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Zheng ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Yiqun Qian

This paper proposes a study on gearbox fault feature extraction of wind turbine under variable speed condition using improved adaptive variational mode decomposition (VMD). Frequent changes in wind speed and critical noise interference make the vibration signal exhibit non-stationary characteristics. Although computational order tracking can transform non-stationary signals in the time domain into stationary angular signals, and then extract fault features from order spectrum obtained by FFT, the obtained order spectrum is liable to be polluted by noise or to appear order aliasing. To avoid order aliasing and eliminate noise interference, the original non-stationary signal is firstly processed using the improved adaptive VMD method called adaptive differential evolution – VMD (ADE-VMD). ADE-VMD can not only utilise the advantages of traditional VMD but also adaptively select narrow-band intrinsic mode function (NBIMF) to construct the reconstructed signal with less noise and without order aliasing. In the experiment, we compared the ADE-VMD method with other VMD methods such as GA-VMD, PSO-VMD and DE-VMD, and the results showed that ADE-VMD has excellent adaptive processing ability, and its convergence and optimisation speed are more remarkable. ADE-VMD can effectively filter the noise inference and avoid the order aliasing, so it is well suitable for fault feature extraction under variable speed.


2021 ◽  
pp. 147592172110066
Author(s):  
Bin Pang ◽  
Mojtaba Nazari ◽  
Zhenduo Sun ◽  
Jiaying Li ◽  
Guiji Tang

The fault feature signal of rolling bearing can be characterized as the narrow-band signal with a specific resonance frequency. Therefore, resonance demodulation analysis is a powerful damage detection technique of bearings. In addition to the fault feature signal, the measured vibration signals carry various interference components, and these interference components become a serious obstacle of fault feature extraction. Variational mode extraction is a novel signal analysis method designed to retrieve a specific signal component from the composite signal. Variational mode extraction is founded on a similar basis as variational mode decomposition, while it shows better accuracy and higher efficiency compared with variational mode decomposition. In this study, variational mode extraction is introduced to the resonance demodulation analysis of bearing fault. As the results of variational mode extraction analysis are greatly influenced by the choice of two parameters, that is, the balancing factor α and the initial guess of center frequency ωd, an optimized variational mode extraction method is further developed. First, a new fault information evaluation index for measuring the richness of fault characteristics of the signal, termed ensemble impulsiveness and cyclostationarity, is formulated. Second, the ensemble impulsiveness and cyclostationarity is used as the fitness function of particle swarm optimization to automatically determine the optimal values of α and ωd. Finally, the validity of optimized variational mode extraction method is verified by simulated and experimental analysis, and the superiority of optimized variational mode extraction method is highlighted through comparison with two other advanced resonance demodulation analysis approaches, that is, the improved kurtogram and infogram. The analysis results indicate that optimized variational mode extraction method has a powerful capability of resonance demodulation analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-675
Author(s):  
Zhitao He ◽  
Haiyang Zhang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Xin Jin ◽  
Song Gao ◽  
...  

Highlights A method of monitoring the working conditions of a slideway seedling-picking mechanism based on variational mode decomposition (VMD), envelope entropy, and energy entropy is proposed. Based on the criterion of envelope entropy minimization, the combination of the decomposition layer number and penalty factor in VMD is optimized to yield a satisfactory decomposition effect of the analyzed vibration signal. The BP-AdaBoost algorithm is used to improve the working condition classification performance for the slideway seedling-picking mechanism. The working-condition identification effect with the proposed method are compared with those through EMD-based, LMD-based, and EEMD-based methods. Abstract . The slideway seedling-picking mechanism is a type of rotating machinery. This study proposes a novel method of identifying the working conditions of slideway seedling-picking mechanisms for early fault diagnosis by utilizing a back-propagation adaptive boosting (BP-AdaBoost) algorithm based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) optimized by the envelope entropy. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively verify the four working conditions (normal state, slideway failure, cam failure, and spring failure). The overall recognition accuracy reaches 90.0% under the optimal combination of the decomposition layer number K and penalty factor a in VMD determined through the envelope entropy minimization criterion. Classification comparisons with empirical mode decomposition (EMD), local mean decomposition (LMD) and ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) integrated into the BP-AdaBoost algorithm indicate that the overall recognition accuracy of the proposed method is 18.1%, 16.9%, and 15.6% higher than the accuracies of the three conventional methods, respectively. Compared with the K-means, support vector machine (SVM) algorithms, BP-AdaBoost algorithm demonstrates a more dependable capability for identifying the working conditions. This study provides a useful reference for monitoring the working conditions of slideway seedling-picking mechanisms. Keywords: BP-AdaBoost algorithm, Energy entropy, Envelope entropy, Slideway seedling-picking mechanism, Variational mode decomposition, Working conditions.


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 584
Author(s):  
Shuting Wan ◽  
Bo Peng

Early fault information of rolling bearings is weak and often submerged by background noise, easily leading to misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis. In order to solve this issue, the present paper puts forward a fault diagnosis method on the basis of adaptive frequency window (AFW) and sparse coding shrinkage (SCS). The proposed method is based on the idea of determining the resonance frequency band, extracting the narrowband signal, and envelope demodulating the extracted signal. Firstly, the paper introduces frequency window, which can slip on the frequency axis and extract the frequency band. Secondly, the double time domain feature entropy is proposed to evaluate the strength of periodic components in signal. The location of the optimal frequency window covering the resonance band caused by bearing fault is determined adaptively by this entropy index and the shifting/expanding frequency window. Thirdly, the signal corresponding to the optimal frequency window is reconstructed, and it is further filtered by the sparse coding shrinkage algorithm to highlight the impact feature and reduce the residue noise. Fourthly, the de-noised signal is demodulated by envelope operation, and the corresponding envelope spectrum is calculated. Finally, the bearing failure type can be judged by comparing the frequency corresponding to the spectral lines with larger amplitude in the envelope spectrum and the fault characteristic frequency. Two bearing vibration signals are applied to validate the proposed method. The analysis results illustrate that this method can extract more failure information and highlight the early failure feature. The data files of Case Western Reserve University for different operation conditions are used, and the proposed approach achieves a diagnostic success rate of 83.3%, superior to that of the AFW method, SCS method, and Fast Kurtogram method. The method presented in this paper can be used as a supplement to the early fault diagnosis method of rolling bearings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Long Zhang ◽  
Binghuan Cai ◽  
Guoliang Xiong ◽  
Jianmin Zhou ◽  
Wenbin Tu ◽  
...  

Fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is not a trivial task because fault-induced periodic transient impulses are always submerged in environmental noise as well as large accidental impulses and attenuated by transmission path. In most hybrid diagnostic methods available for rolling bearings, the problems lie in twofolds. First, most optimization indices used in the individual signal processing stage do not take the periodical characteristic of fault transient impulses into consideration. Second, the individual stages make use of different optimization indices resulting in inconsistent optimization directions and possibly an unsatisfied diagnosis. To solve these problems, a multistage fault feature extraction method of consistent optimization for rolling bearings based on correlated kurtosis (CK) is proposed where maximum correlated kurtosis deconvolution (MCKD) is employed to attenuate the influence of transmission path followed by tunable Q factor wavelet transform (TQWT) to further enhance fault features by decomposing the preprocessed signals into multiple subbands under different Q values. The major contribution of the proposed approach is to consistently use CK as an optimization index of both MCKD and TQWT. The subband signal with the maximum CK which is an index being able to measure the periodical transient impulses in vibration signal yields an envelope spectrum, from which fault diagnosis is implemented. Simulated and experimental signals verified the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method.


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